Car-coupling



(No Model) H. WINE.

GAR COUPLING.

No. 318,844. Patented May 26, 1885.

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HENRY WINE, or MARION, INDIANA.

CAR-COUPLING.

QI ECIFICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,844, dated May 26, 1885.

Application filed March 30, 1855. (No model.)

To all 2072,0722, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY NINE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Marion, in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved car-coupling attached to the end of a car in position for operation. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical, sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on the line a; m in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the several parts of my improved car-coupling separated or detached from each other.

The same letters refer to the same parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to that class of carcouplings which are known as automatic or seli'-acting; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency, which shall be certain in its operation, and which may be easily manipulated.

\Vith these ends in view the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A designates the draw-head of my improved car-coupling, which is suitably attached to or connected with the end of the car B.

The draw-head A is provided with the usual mouth or opening, B, and its sides are provided with openings (3, forming bearings for a transverse shaft, D. The latter is provided at one end with a head or handle, E, and at its other end with a flange or feather, F, for the passage of which the openings 0 U are provided with rearwardly-extending slots G.

Mounted upon the shaft D is a couplinghook, H, the front end of which is formed with the hook I, adapted to engage the shaft D of the draw-head of the opposite car, while its rear end is provided with an arm, J, extending downwardly, as shown, through an open ing, K, in the bottom of the draw-head, and having a perforation, L, with which is connected a chain, M, which is secured in the eye at its middle, passes through eyes or staples N at both sides of the under side of the drawhead,forward of the eye in the hook, and from these eyes to staples O O at the sides of the platform of the car, so that the hook may be tilted upward by pulling either of the ends of the chain.

hen desired, for the purpose of coupling wit-h cars of unequal height, the couplinghook may be bent or twisted, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, the operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood.

The construction is simple and inexpensive, and the device is easily manipulated and certain in its action.

Having thus described inyinvention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States The combination of the draw-head having the slot in its bottom and provided with the eyes N at both sides of its bottom, forward of the slot, the hook pivoted upon a transverse bolt in the draw-head and having the downwardly curved eyed rear end projecting through the slot in the bottom of the drawhead, and the chain secured atits middle to the eye of the hook, passing through the eyes at the bottom of the draw-head and secured at its ends to the platform of the car, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto aifixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY VINE.

Vitnesses:

Joan P. Rronannson, EDGAR L. GOLDTHWAIT. 

